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The Medical Oncology department provides quality diagnosis, treatment, and care for patients with cancer.
Traditional chemotherapy and new clinical trials provide our Medical Oncologists with access to a tremendous range of new anticancer treatments, including medicines and combinations of medicines.
"Personalized" treatment involves identifying characteristics of individual patients' tumors in order to determine their responsiveness to specific chemotherapy drugs. The ultimate goal of such analysis is to determine which tumors are sensitive to a given drug and equally important, which tumors are resistant to specific drugs.
A similar approach has already benefited the Fox Chase Gastrointestinal Cancer program, where patients with metastatic colorectal cancer are routinely screened for mutations in the K-RAS gene to determine the most effective drug treatment. Fox Chase's Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory has been conducting this test since 2007.
This focus on personalized medicine is just another example of Fox Chase's leadership in bringing state-of-the-art research directly to the bedside and delivering expert and compassionate care with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
Medical Oncology Staff List
- Paul F. Engstrom, MD, FACP
Acting Chair, Medical Oncology
Senior Vice President,
Extramural Research Programs
Chief Network Officer Emeritus,
Fox Chase Cancer Center Partners - Michael V. Seiden, MD, PhD,
President and CEO, Fox Chase Cancer Center - Michael H. Levy, MD, PhD,
Vice Chair, Medical Oncology - Igor Astsaturov MD, PhD
- Hossein Borghaei, MD
- Barbara Ann Burtness, MD
- Jonathan D. Cheng, MD
- Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, FACP
Leader of the Breast Service Line
Co-Leader of the Women's Cancer Research Program
G. Morris Dorrance Jr. Endowed Chair in Medical Oncology - Adam D. Cohen, MD
- Steven J. Cohen, MD
Chief,
Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology;
Medical Director, Medical Oncology,
Fox Chase Cancer Center Partners - Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD, FACP
- Efrat Dotan, MD
- Crystal S Denlinger, MD
- Holly Dushkin, MD
- Scot W Ebbinghaus, MD
- Lori J. Goldstein, MD
- Gary R. Hudes, MD
- Michael J. Kane MD, FACP
Medical Director of Medical Oncology, AtlantiCare Cancer Institute - Gregory Michael Lubiniecki, MD
- Lainie P. Martin, MD
- Ranee Mehra, MD
- Michael M Millenson, MD
- Tara Morrison, MD, FRCP(c)
- Anthony J. Olszanski, MD, RPh
- Elizabeth R. Plimack, MD, MS
- Barbara Pro, MD
- Paula Ryan, MD, PhD
- Mitchell R. Smith, MD, PhD
- Joseph Treat, MD
- Margaret von Mehren, MD
- Yu-Ning Wong, MD
Pain and Palliative Care
- Michael Levy, MD, PhD
Medical Director of PPCP - Marcin Chwistek, MD
Advance Practice Clinicians
- Colleen Erb, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, APRN-BC
- Joan James, PA-C
- Kristen Kreamer, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, APRN-BC
- Agnes Masny, RN, MPH, MSN, CRNP
- Ann Pellegrino, CRNP, MSN
- Barbara Rogers, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, APRN-BC
- Susan Roethke, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, APRN-BC
- Eric Tetzlaff, PA-C
- Kathryn Tumelty, CRNP, MSN, AOCNP
- Kia Witherspoon, RN, MSN, ANP-BC
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